an omen from dress
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An Omen from DressAuthor(s): T. E. LonesSource: Folklore, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep. 30, 1914), pp. 372-373Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1254782 .
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Collectanea. Collectanea. Collectanea. Collectanea.
THE DEVIL'S ROCKS, NEAR DOWNTON CASTLE, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE.
On these rocks you can see the marks of the Devil's feet, where he used to dance; the four pillars are his partners. Close by is the little stone seat on which he used to rest.
E. M. LEATHER.
THE SALIVA SUPERSTITION.
A few weeks ago I noticed one of my schoolboys taking up a white stone from the road, spitting upon it, and then throwing it over his head. In doing so he repeated the following distich:
" Lucky stone, lucky stone, Bring me luck when I go home."
Upon enquiry I found that it would afterwards be unlucky for him to look back when turning round a corner.
"AERON " (Glyn Traiarn, North Wales), writing in
Bygones, 1893-4, p. 60.
THE NIGHTINGALE AN ILL-OMENED BIRD.
Recently at Newport, Shropshire, a pair of nightingales built for the first time near the canal, and people used to collect at night to listen to them singing. People now say that it would be a
good thing if they never returned, because bad luck, including seven deaths, occurred in the neighbourhood as a result of their
sojourn. E. F. BENNION.
AN OMEN FROM DRESS.
In the neighbourhood of Watford, King's Langley, and Abbots
Langley in West Herts, it is a common belief that if the lower
THE DEVIL'S ROCKS, NEAR DOWNTON CASTLE, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE.
On these rocks you can see the marks of the Devil's feet, where he used to dance; the four pillars are his partners. Close by is the little stone seat on which he used to rest.
E. M. LEATHER.
THE SALIVA SUPERSTITION.
A few weeks ago I noticed one of my schoolboys taking up a white stone from the road, spitting upon it, and then throwing it over his head. In doing so he repeated the following distich:
" Lucky stone, lucky stone, Bring me luck when I go home."
Upon enquiry I found that it would afterwards be unlucky for him to look back when turning round a corner.
"AERON " (Glyn Traiarn, North Wales), writing in
Bygones, 1893-4, p. 60.
THE NIGHTINGALE AN ILL-OMENED BIRD.
Recently at Newport, Shropshire, a pair of nightingales built for the first time near the canal, and people used to collect at night to listen to them singing. People now say that it would be a
good thing if they never returned, because bad luck, including seven deaths, occurred in the neighbourhood as a result of their
sojourn. E. F. BENNION.
AN OMEN FROM DRESS.
In the neighbourhood of Watford, King's Langley, and Abbots
Langley in West Herts, it is a common belief that if the lower
THE DEVIL'S ROCKS, NEAR DOWNTON CASTLE, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE.
On these rocks you can see the marks of the Devil's feet, where he used to dance; the four pillars are his partners. Close by is the little stone seat on which he used to rest.
E. M. LEATHER.
THE SALIVA SUPERSTITION.
A few weeks ago I noticed one of my schoolboys taking up a white stone from the road, spitting upon it, and then throwing it over his head. In doing so he repeated the following distich:
" Lucky stone, lucky stone, Bring me luck when I go home."
Upon enquiry I found that it would afterwards be unlucky for him to look back when turning round a corner.
"AERON " (Glyn Traiarn, North Wales), writing in
Bygones, 1893-4, p. 60.
THE NIGHTINGALE AN ILL-OMENED BIRD.
Recently at Newport, Shropshire, a pair of nightingales built for the first time near the canal, and people used to collect at night to listen to them singing. People now say that it would be a
good thing if they never returned, because bad luck, including seven deaths, occurred in the neighbourhood as a result of their
sojourn. E. F. BENNION.
AN OMEN FROM DRESS.
In the neighbourhood of Watford, King's Langley, and Abbots
Langley in West Herts, it is a common belief that if the lower
THE DEVIL'S ROCKS, NEAR DOWNTON CASTLE, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE.
On these rocks you can see the marks of the Devil's feet, where he used to dance; the four pillars are his partners. Close by is the little stone seat on which he used to rest.
E. M. LEATHER.
THE SALIVA SUPERSTITION.
A few weeks ago I noticed one of my schoolboys taking up a white stone from the road, spitting upon it, and then throwing it over his head. In doing so he repeated the following distich:
" Lucky stone, lucky stone, Bring me luck when I go home."
Upon enquiry I found that it would afterwards be unlucky for him to look back when turning round a corner.
"AERON " (Glyn Traiarn, North Wales), writing in
Bygones, 1893-4, p. 60.
THE NIGHTINGALE AN ILL-OMENED BIRD.
Recently at Newport, Shropshire, a pair of nightingales built for the first time near the canal, and people used to collect at night to listen to them singing. People now say that it would be a
good thing if they never returned, because bad luck, including seven deaths, occurred in the neighbourhood as a result of their
sojourn. E. F. BENNION.
AN OMEN FROM DRESS.
In the neighbourhood of Watford, King's Langley, and Abbots
Langley in West Herts, it is a common belief that if the lower
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Colleclanea. Colleclanea. Colleclanea. Colleclanea.
edge of a woman's skirt has become turned up so as to form a kind of pocket, some good fortune, such as a present of a new dress, will come to the owner.
T. E. LONES.
BUBBLING 'WELLS IN SOMERSET.
On the first three Sundays in May people visited, and perhaps do still, three wells at Taunton. When the water bubbled patients stood in the wells and were cured of "any humours." On these days after twelve o'clock young men used to play " birn ball " in the streets.
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
EPIPHANY AND EASTER OBSERVANCES IN WESTMORELAND.
On the Eve of the Epiphany, at Brough-under-Stainmore, there is an annual procession called "The Carrying of the Holling" or Holy tree (see Parliamentary Gazette, I843, vol. i., p. 297). In this and the neighbouring counties young folk or mummers used to perform a sort of play, and begged for pace eggs. At Kendal children still gather in the Castle Fields for " Jerring of Pace Eggs" on Easter Tuesday. The eggs which were unbroken were hailed as "conquerors." The game of "Grandy Needles" consisted of a line of young men on one side and young women on the other, forming an arch, under which they all passed in succession. This game, which took place on Easter Tuesday, ceased about 1860. (Mr. G. Rushforth, parish clerk, Kendal, in I906.)
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
FOLKLORE FROM ESSEX.
Watching the Wardstaffe.-At Ongar and Harlow, lands were held by the service of watching the Wardstaffe, which was cut
edge of a woman's skirt has become turned up so as to form a kind of pocket, some good fortune, such as a present of a new dress, will come to the owner.
T. E. LONES.
BUBBLING 'WELLS IN SOMERSET.
On the first three Sundays in May people visited, and perhaps do still, three wells at Taunton. When the water bubbled patients stood in the wells and were cured of "any humours." On these days after twelve o'clock young men used to play " birn ball " in the streets.
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
EPIPHANY AND EASTER OBSERVANCES IN WESTMORELAND.
On the Eve of the Epiphany, at Brough-under-Stainmore, there is an annual procession called "The Carrying of the Holling" or Holy tree (see Parliamentary Gazette, I843, vol. i., p. 297). In this and the neighbouring counties young folk or mummers used to perform a sort of play, and begged for pace eggs. At Kendal children still gather in the Castle Fields for " Jerring of Pace Eggs" on Easter Tuesday. The eggs which were unbroken were hailed as "conquerors." The game of "Grandy Needles" consisted of a line of young men on one side and young women on the other, forming an arch, under which they all passed in succession. This game, which took place on Easter Tuesday, ceased about 1860. (Mr. G. Rushforth, parish clerk, Kendal, in I906.)
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
FOLKLORE FROM ESSEX.
Watching the Wardstaffe.-At Ongar and Harlow, lands were held by the service of watching the Wardstaffe, which was cut
edge of a woman's skirt has become turned up so as to form a kind of pocket, some good fortune, such as a present of a new dress, will come to the owner.
T. E. LONES.
BUBBLING 'WELLS IN SOMERSET.
On the first three Sundays in May people visited, and perhaps do still, three wells at Taunton. When the water bubbled patients stood in the wells and were cured of "any humours." On these days after twelve o'clock young men used to play " birn ball " in the streets.
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
EPIPHANY AND EASTER OBSERVANCES IN WESTMORELAND.
On the Eve of the Epiphany, at Brough-under-Stainmore, there is an annual procession called "The Carrying of the Holling" or Holy tree (see Parliamentary Gazette, I843, vol. i., p. 297). In this and the neighbouring counties young folk or mummers used to perform a sort of play, and begged for pace eggs. At Kendal children still gather in the Castle Fields for " Jerring of Pace Eggs" on Easter Tuesday. The eggs which were unbroken were hailed as "conquerors." The game of "Grandy Needles" consisted of a line of young men on one side and young women on the other, forming an arch, under which they all passed in succession. This game, which took place on Easter Tuesday, ceased about 1860. (Mr. G. Rushforth, parish clerk, Kendal, in I906.)
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
FOLKLORE FROM ESSEX.
Watching the Wardstaffe.-At Ongar and Harlow, lands were held by the service of watching the Wardstaffe, which was cut
edge of a woman's skirt has become turned up so as to form a kind of pocket, some good fortune, such as a present of a new dress, will come to the owner.
T. E. LONES.
BUBBLING 'WELLS IN SOMERSET.
On the first three Sundays in May people visited, and perhaps do still, three wells at Taunton. When the water bubbled patients stood in the wells and were cured of "any humours." On these days after twelve o'clock young men used to play " birn ball " in the streets.
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
EPIPHANY AND EASTER OBSERVANCES IN WESTMORELAND.
On the Eve of the Epiphany, at Brough-under-Stainmore, there is an annual procession called "The Carrying of the Holling" or Holy tree (see Parliamentary Gazette, I843, vol. i., p. 297). In this and the neighbouring counties young folk or mummers used to perform a sort of play, and begged for pace eggs. At Kendal children still gather in the Castle Fields for " Jerring of Pace Eggs" on Easter Tuesday. The eggs which were unbroken were hailed as "conquerors." The game of "Grandy Needles" consisted of a line of young men on one side and young women on the other, forming an arch, under which they all passed in succession. This game, which took place on Easter Tuesday, ceased about 1860. (Mr. G. Rushforth, parish clerk, Kendal, in I906.)
J. B. PARTRIDGE.
FOLKLORE FROM ESSEX.
Watching the Wardstaffe.-At Ongar and Harlow, lands were held by the service of watching the Wardstaffe, which was cut
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